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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit is optimized, the solution... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research
fundraising for the expedition’s nonprofit charity. The team is making plans for a marketing and media blitz to raise awareness of their efforts before the first climb in late December. If all goes as planned, the climbers will conquer all seven peaks within 198 days,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
coronavirus. Kapoor was tested and by the time he received the results nine days later, they confirmed what he already knew: he had COVID-19 (and so did his wife, a physician, and two of his four kids). Kapoor’s testing experience... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
tools, expediting the time frame and accuracy of results. Using genomics and machine learning, Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) and Aikili Biosystems aim to save lives. “A common reaction to our venture is that it is ‘ambitious.’ Clearly our... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
allow anonymous reviews, and we invest significant resources, both human and technological, in our accountability process.” Hicks enjoys helping consumers take care of business by being able to connect not only to the best-reviewed local... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Ellerin (MBA 1995) and Robert DeNoble (MBA 1972), the club honored Sir Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group and the Conference Keynote Speaker, with the 2025 Ellerin Achievement Award for his dedicated and innovative leadership in the health View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship The Sweet Life: Paul Conforti at Finale Desserterie & Bakery. “Everything is a balancing act... you’ve got to be able to adapt.” Related Links A Growing Drumbeat Show Me the Money - or Not Cloudflare introductory video A View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Exploring the Galápagos
pup. In addition, each day has an option of kayaking or snorkeling (with sea turtles, penguins, sea lions, or sharks). It is the kind of monotony one could get used to, but never does. Our trip is capped with a dinner hosted by Quito... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
with staff to create the BooWow Factor, measuring the “wows” and “boos” generated through follow-up phone calls to a sampling of patients who visit a salauno clinic. Management finds that such direct feedback is an invaluable tool in identifying areas of View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. By May 12, GiveIndia’s web page was showing a tally of 1,550 donors from 30 different university groups, raising... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
these small villages, Poindexter has seen both simple inconveniences and economic hardship that result from the lack of power. Although cocoa farming, which is prevalent in the region where Energicity launched, doesn’t require electricity, the farmers’ View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- News
The Seeds of Learning
We teach students about nutrition, community, and the environment through hands-on lessons that take place in the garden. That means that we’re teaching students about how to take care of their bodies through both diet and exercise, how... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Dynamic Group
We arrived over several days in early January, most of us flying into Arusha, Tanzania, although some chose to travel via Nairobi, Kenya. Coming from ten countries, we were met by Global Adrenaline’s local representatives, who escorted us... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)
I was born into an entrepreneurial family. My parents owned a small business in the day care industry, so I have been working since I was seven years old. But I didn’t start getting paid until I got out of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Thumbs Up Down Under
It was with mixed emotions that Rich Wilson (MBA '82) and his coskipper Bill Biewenga set sail from New York Harbor last September aboard their 53-foot trimaran Great American II, heading south on a long-planned voyage to Melbourne, Australia, fourteen thousand miles... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
video interviews and audio reenactments of meetings that take them from the shuttle’s launch to Day 8. On that day, a critical Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting determined that foam strikes that had occurred during the shuttle’s... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
passion. It’s just my passion is the technology, not the problem. That’s a great way of doing things. Many really good businesses have been built up on that. The other way, that’s more familiar to me, is saying, I have a problem and I need to fix it. I don’t really... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
away from you quickly. In the early days of WAVE, with a fairly small team, it was easy for me to model the expected behavior. But as we started to scale up, and our original culture ambassadors became the minority to the new hires, we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
surgery to ensure that the electrode is placed in the exact area being affected. So on the day Frisch was in surgery, he played a special violin that Bennet’s engineering team had created, with a bow that could detect his tremors. In what... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos